Chart question - dol?

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kpgraci

kpgraci

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Jun 12, 2010
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Oday 22 Orleans Marina, NOLA
I'm looking at chart 11369 - and there are several references to 'dol', which according to http://mapserver.mytopo.com/mapserver/nautical_symbols/V1.html#S stands for dolphin.

Fine, I guess. But I've never seen a dolphin In lake P., not that there are none, but even so, how is it possilbe to chart them?

Then I found 'subm dol' - Submerged Dolphin, um, are there any other kind?

I'm starting to think 'dol' does not stand for dolphin after all.

Sorry guys, I'm really tying to run out of dumb questions.
 
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Anchor Down

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Jan 4, 2006
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It Ain't Flipper

kp: check out definition #3a, below.

dol·phin   [dol-fin, dawl-]
–noun
1. any of several chiefly marine, cetacean mammals of the family Delphinidae, having a fishlike body, numerous teeth, and the front of the head elongated into a beaklike projection.
2. Also called dolphinfish, mahimahi, pompano dolphin. either of two large, slender fishes, Coryphaena hippurus or C. equisetis, of warm and temperate seas.
3. Nautical .
a. a pile, cluster of piles, or buoy to which a vessel may be moored in open water.
b. a cluster of piles used as a fender, as at the entrance to a dock.
c. a pudding fender at the nose of a tugboat or on the side of a vessel.
4. ( initial capital letter ) Astronomy . the constellation Delphinus.
 
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Interlude

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Jun 2, 2004
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Beneteau 461 Sydney, Australia
I agree with Anchor Down, a cluster of piles, normally with a platform for mooring. Now, if you are a geologist, you might interpret this as dolomite on the sea bed.


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Stu Jackson

Stu Jackson

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Feb 26, 2004
22,987
Catalina 34 224 Maple Bay, BC, Canada
Read Chart No. 1. It has all the symbols and abbreviations. They're also in books.
 
kpgraci

kpgraci

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Jun 12, 2010
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Oday 22 Orleans Marina, NOLA
Anchor Down said:
a. a pile, cluster of piles, or buoy to which a vessel may be moored in open water.
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Ohhh. Nevermind. :) (1$ to SNL)

Dolimite was my first guess (sea bed), but upon reading chart no 1, it says dol = dolphin, I was thinking flipper not pile.

Better now, thanks.
 
sailaway78

sailaway78

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May 11, 2005
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Seidelman S37 Slidell, La.
DOL

Quite common on ICW charts in the south at least. Means a " dolphin ", which is basically a mooring for barges. Can be large floaters, or some pilings lashed together.
 
Warren Milberg

Warren Milberg

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Dec 1, 1999
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Hunter 28.5 Chesapeake Bay
In the Chesapeake, we see a number of "Dolphins" (usually a cluster of 3 pilings) used as a lighted or unlighted navaids. It is illegal to moor or tie up to such markers.
 
dparilla

dparilla

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Jan 22, 2008
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Oday 35 and Mariner 2+2 Alexandria, VA
Which is the sound one makes when caught tied to a dol that is no supposed to be tied to.
 
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